Psychology Associate - Mental Health Training specialist - PM-HQ

Psychology Associate – Mental Health Training Specialist

Tumwater, WA

Monthly Salary Range: $8,129 to $10,938

The Department of Corrections is seeking a highly motivated and qualified individual for the role of Psychology Associate – Mental Health Training Specialist.

The Washington state Department of Corrections is committed to reducing or eliminating individuals who die by suicide while in prison or shortly following release from prison. Toward this effort this position will clinically inform and help implement training efforts, across divisions, to achieve this goal. They will utilize the most up to date training content and strategies and modify those strategies for effective implementation in a correctional setting.

This will include, through is not limited to, providing clinical consultation on the updating of all training curricula associated with suicide prevention and mental illness. They will also help to develop and implement a comprehensive plan to educate the incarcerated population regarding suicide and how to prevent deaths. This work will nec3essarily require inclusion of internal and external stakeholders to ensure appropriate application of death reduction efforts.

This position is committed to ensuring all staff have the knowledge and skills they need to effectively interact with and manage mentally ill incarcerated individuals who comprise and increasingly large percentage of the prison population.

Application assessment will be ongoing, and the hiring authority reserves the right to offer the position at any time during the recruitment process. It is to the applicant's advantage to apply as early as possible.

This recruitment could be used to fill multiple permanent or non-permanent positions.

• Mental Health Training: develop and manage all curricula to be used for training related to mental health concerns. This includes training on topics such as suicide prevention, mental illness (in general), and working with incarcerated individuals with mental illness. The various curricula would be responsible for training instructions in the delivery of these curricula and well as instructing the training. This position would also conduct quality assurance audits on the delivery of materials.
  
  The position may be asked to develop specialized training for mental health, or other staff, as needed.
• Consultation, providing consultation to other divisions regarding essential elements of suicide prevention and other mental health-related trainings. This will include collaborating with the Community Corrections Division regarding particular risks and strategies specific to those people at time of, or shortly after release to the community.
• Other duties as assigned

• Licensed Agency Affiliated Counselor (LAAC)
• Must have the ability to apply for Licensed Agency Affiliated Counselor license within 30 days of hire date.
• Additional consideration may be given for higher level DOH Mental Health Licenses.

• Master’s degree in psychology or a related field
• Experience conducting audits to include the development of feedback and action plans for staff.
• Experience facilitating training.
• Experience in developing training curriculum.
• Experience training instructors (train the trainer).
• Experience working in a collaborative fashion as part of a multidisciplinary treatment team.

The mission of DOC is to improve public safety by positively changing lives.

Working together for safer communities.

To operate a safe and humane corrections system and partner with others to transform lives for a better Washington.